The top reported proficiency rate is 63% in Math. The lowest is 52% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Pleasant Grove Elementary School
Pleasant Grove Elementary sits on Sorrento Road in the southwest part of Pensacola, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Escambia County district. The enrollment is moderate for its grade band, with students spread fairly evenly across grades. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in the higher-need portion of the district's elementary schools. The student body is racially mixed, with white students making up the largest single group, followed by Black students, students of two or more races, and Hispanic students, among others.
State testing data is available for grades three through five on Florida's FAST assessments in math and ELA, and for fifth grade in science. Third-grade math proficiency is the clearest strength, with most students at or above the state's benchmark. ELA in third grade is solid as well, with a meaningful majority reaching proficiency. Both subjects weaken in fourth grade and drop further by fifth, where math proficiency falls to roughly half of students and ELA sits somewhat below that. Fifth-grade science lands near that same range. The pattern of declining proficiency as students move through the upper elementary grades is worth a closer look, and parents who want to understand what is driving it would do well to ask the school directly. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving or declining over time.
Data on chronic absenteeism, IEP rates, and English learner rates were not reported in the available records, so those dimensions of the student support picture are gaps here rather than conclusions about the school's programs.
The school has no graduation rate, AP programs, or dual-enrollment pathways, as none of those apply to an elementary school. Program and course-access details were not provided in the data, so specifics about enrichment, arts, or intervention offerings are not something this account can address.
Housing in the zip code around Pleasant Grove is priced close to the Florida statewide median and modestly below the national benchmark, with values that have dipped slightly over the past year while rents have edged up. Affordability relative to income sits at a manageable ratio compared to many Florida markets. The broader Pensacola housing context is one of active growth: the county has approved a large volume of new residential projects recently, downtown is adding density, and suburban areas to the north and west are expanding, all of which may affect school enrollment and neighborhood composition over coming years.
Escambia County as a district has a few developments families should know about. Voters renewed the district's dedicated half-cent sales tax in late 2024, extending a major funding stream for construction, renovations, and technology through the coming decade. That provides some stability for facility investment across the district's schools. The district has also carried out a large-scale removal of library and classroom titles under state policy, including a number of widely taught classics, and updated its materials policy to require written certification of compliance from media specialists. Families with strong views on library access and what texts are available to students will want to factor that in. Separately, a question on returning to an elected superintendent rather than the current appointed model was placed on the August 2025 ballot, meaning the district's governance structure may shift in coming years.
Pensacola itself is a city with a clear economic backbone in the military, healthcare, and finance sectors. The Navy's presence in the southwest part of the city, near where Pleasant Grove sits, shapes the neighborhood character and the community around it. Downtown's walkable core along Palafox Street and the city's parks system are assets for families, though Pleasant Grove's location is more suburban, on the southwest side of the city closer to the Navy Federal and NAS Pensacola corridor than to the downtown core.
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